[Rarebooks] FS: 1838 First Edition of Charles Dickens: MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI

[Charles Agvent]

DICKENS, Charles. MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI. London: Richard Bentley, 
1838. First Edition. Two volumes bound in later half black morocco with 
matching corners and marbled boards. First Issue, bound without half 
titles and the ads. With a frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi by W. 
Greatbatch after a painting by S. Raven and 12 full-page plates by 
George Cruikshank. Edited by Dickens with some original material from a 
poorly compiled version by Thomas Egerton Wilks. Some rubbing along 
spine edges, neatly retouched. Near Fine.

 From Wikipedia: "Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 -- 31 May 1837) was 
an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular 
English entertainer of the Regency era. In the early 1800s, he expanded 
the role of Clown in the harlequinade that formed part of British 
pantomimes, notably at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Sadler's 
Wells and Covent Garden theatres. He became so dominant on the London 
comic stage that harlequinade Clowns became known as "Joey", and both 
the nickname and Grimaldi's whiteface make-up design were, and still 
are, used by other types of clowns.... Grimaldi is remembered today in 
an annual memorial service on the first Sunday in February, at Holy 
Trinity Church in the London Borough of Hackney. The service, which has 
been held since the 1940s, attracts hundreds of clown performers from 
all over the world who attend the service in full clown costume." 
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